In this hymn, Night is described as the Goddess of passionate love, sleep, night-time festivities, dreams, rest from toil, astronomy, and the recurrence of daylight. It ends with a plea to forestall inevitable death, grant well-being, and banish fears until the light of day. From Theoi.com:

Statius, Thebaid 3. 406 ff : "(Night) came on, and laid to rest the cares of men and the prowlings of wild beasts, and wrapped the heavens in her dusky shroud, coming to all with kindly influence."Nonnus, Dionysiaca 25. 570 : "Quiet Nyx (Night) covered all the earth in her dark shades."Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 3. 742 : "Nyx (Night) threw her shadow on the world."

Aratus, Phaenomena 468 ff : "On a clear night, when Nyx (Night) in the heavens shows to men (sic) all her stars in their brightness..."Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 1075 (trans. O'Neill) (Greek comedy C5th to 4th B.C.E.) :"Oh! thou divine Nyx (Night)! how slowly thy chariot threads its way through the starry vault..."